Furmanite renews LCV fleet with Citroën vans14 June 2013

Plant and pipeline maintenance firm Furmanite is renewing its 100 strong LCV fleet with Citroën vans, following an assessment involving six vehicle manufacturers that that focused on reliability.

The deal sees the Kendal company taking delivery of a mix of predominantly L1H1 Dispatch and Relay vans on four year, with maintenance, lease contracts through Lex Autolease.

Its initial orders included 28 Dispatch, 24 Relay and three Berlingo vans, which will be ply-lined by supplying dealer John Wilding of Morecambe. A further 11 Dispatch L2H1, six Relay 33 L1H1 and 35 Relay L2H2 vans are now on order.

The majority of the Dispatch vans are HDi 90 manual L1H1 1000 Enterprise vehicles, while Furmanite has also selected Berlingo HDi 75 manual L1 625 Enterprise models, with CO2 emissions of 133g/km and 55.4mpg on the combined cycle.

The order for the Relays is divided between the 35 L2H2 HDi 130 six-speed manual and the lighter and more fuel-efficient Relay, the 33 L1H1 HDi 130 six-speed manual, which has a payload of almost 1.5 tonnes and returns 38.2mpg on the combined cycle.

"While we already run Citroën vans, we went through a rigorous re-evaluation of a wide range other manufacturers' LCV products before we placed the order with Citroën," states Furmanite director of HR Susan Berriman.

"Our engineers are very happy with the Citroëns. We wouldn't have considered replacing like-for-like if they weren't."

In service, Furmanite vans run fully loaded and will cover around 90,000 miles during their four-year life.

Author
Brian Tinham

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